Energy expert Gia Arabidze says sufficient time has passed to prepare a detailed report on the major power outages that affected Georgia during the summer, stressing that identifying the causes is essential to preventing similar incidents.
Speaking on TV-program Business Course, Arabidze suggested that automatic protection systems may have failed to operate properly, allowing the outages to spread instead of disconnecting consumers to balance the system.
He said that although investigating such incidents is complex, the key technical parameters should by now be available. Arabidze added that he was unaware of any completed technical report and hoped the delay was due to the difficulty of the investigation rather than disagreements between agencies.
Georgia experienced three major power outages in summer 2026. On July 24–25, electricity supply was interrupted for several hours in Tbilisi and parts of the regions, while another outage occurred on August 5 during testing intended to help identify the causes of the earlier incidents.
The Georgian National Energy and Water Supply Regulatory Commission (GNERC) and the State Security Service are investigating the July outages. GNERC Chairman Davit Narmania said in September that the commission expected to complete its report soon.
